Scotland's improved fielding display ca n't save them from second loss in a row
A quick consider after their upsetting event opening put West Indies ' T20 World Cup campaign back on track with a complete victory over Scotland.
West Indies won by six innings with 50 balloons to give at Dubai International Stadium on Sunday evening after falling to South Africa by ten innings. That was after Chinelle Henry's beginning four-over burst yielded 1 for 10 and restricted Scotland to 27 for 2 after seven innings. Afy Fletcher, their 37-year-old legspinner, next took 3 for 22 to limit them to 99 for 8 and it could have been worse for Scotland had West Indies held their strikes.
Qiana Joseph marshalled the run-chase with 31 off 18 pellets while Henry chipped in with 18 off 10 and Deandra Dottin finished it tone with 6-4-6 off Abtaha Maqsood, over long-off, reverse-swept through back stage and pummelled over strong midwicket.
" The first game did n't go to plan," Fletcher said. " No one wants to lose but, at the end of the day, you have to have a success. We go back to the drawing board as all teams do, examine the areas that we really need to work on, and put the plan into action because it did n't go as planned. We have solid programs, and the team, in my opinion, did a great job throughout the game.
" After the first lost, we were a little lower. But from the day itself, we picked ourselves up and we got up and motivated each other and said ,'look, we're below, not just to appear on a trip or something but we're here for company, we're here to play hard and difficult cricket'. So we just got our emotions together to see how we could deliver our best game for the other games. "
Scotland lost their starting match of the game to Bangladesh by 16 works in Sharjah, which was their second battle in as many games. There, they struggled with the searing heat and a reckless of dropped takes.
" We all felt a lot of the Bangladesh sport," said flour Lorna Jack-Brown. " We had a lot of nerves in the team, but I think tonight we did n't really have that," the team said," we believed we could come in and really cause an upset." It always went our way tomorrow but that's T20 cricket.
" We've got a couple more games and we always look to improve, and we're up against world-class players here. We are here to contend, we are here to enjoy cricket, dynamic cricket, but we're also here to study. Not a lot of our women have come up against world-class people and it's an interesting idea to be here, and even more interesting if we can get some lessons away from it and put those into our activities. "
Scotland's ability to learn and demonstrate their skills at this game was demonstrated by a number of challenging takes that they made.
Priyanaz Chatterji held onto an exceptional ping catch at small good leg to end Joseph's innings and Olivia Bell took a strong caught-and-bowled to remove Shemaine Campbelle profitably while Hayley Matthews, the West Indies captain, managed only 8 before she was taken by opposing number Kathryn Bryce, running in from mid-on to complete a strong, low catch.
A lot of the girls went to training last night and did some catching under the lights because it's a different ball-game under the lights, according to Jack-Brown. They have performed quite well and incorporated what they learned from the Bangladesh game.
" It's just about volume. You know how to catch, it's just different in the lights. Probably in the Bangladesh game, the nerves were there and the conditions and everything, you've got to think about quite a lot of things. We just went back to basics, just get under the ball and hopefully your hands will take it. "
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